Ambassador-designate Femi Fani-Kayode has slammed a report(Not by MyNigeria) that the airstrikes on terrorists in Sokoto by the U.S government followed intelligence received from an Onitsha-based screwdriver seller.

In a statement, he said the report aimed to embarrass the U.S and Nigerian governments and their intelligence-gathering.

He described the report as not only fake news but also nothing but a hefty load of disingenuous and infantile hogwash.

Fani-Kayode said, "Anyone who honestly believes that the U.S. Government based its intelligence to bomb parts of Sokoto state on the intel supplied by an Onitsha-based screwdriver-seller who used Google map to source his information and not on the intel supplied by the Nigerian intelligence services must have a low IQ, low self-esteem and a low intelligence quotient. I respectfully urge such a person to get sense.

"The false and mischievous narrative which has been purposely put out by the New York Times to belittle, demean, embarrass and debase both the Nigerian and the U.S. Governments and their intelligence-gathering capabilities is puerile and childish. No country will allow its country to be bombed in the name of fighting ISIS or anyone else on the words of an Onitsha utensils trader, and neither would the Americans take such a precipitous and consequential course of action on the words of such an individual. Things just dont work that way.

"The Nigerian Foreign Minister @YusufTuggar has made it clear that the Americans took the action in collaboration with our Armed Forces and Intelligence agencies and that the intel they used to do so was given to them by our Government. I spoke with him exactly ten minutes after the bombing took place, and he not only assured me of this but also provided me with details of the build-up to the event. The New York Times story can best be described as not only fake news but also nothing but a hefty load of disingenuous and infantile hogwash, and the paper is best flushed down the toilet. Thank you for your attention to this matter."

ASA